Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-04-29
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match the other day, and the winner con-
sumed fifty cigarettes in an hour to the losers
forty-five.
Squire Whitaker, of Waverly, N. Y, who
is 50 year old, and who for several years was
blind, has recently had his sight restored by a
severe illness.
syndicate has been formed by Boston
gentlemen to publish The Illustrated London
News in New York simultaneously with its
appearance in England.
The will of a married woman Just probated
in Kingston, N. Y, is peculiar in that it gives
all her property to her husband for life, or
as long as he "remains unmarried"
The consumption of eggs during an eight
days passage on an ocean steamer is | 800
that is, about an egg minute from the time
the ship sails from Liverpool until her arrival
in New York
One of the inmates of the House of Refuge
in Hamilton, Ont, was born in Isl. Last
year he was in an institution in Dundas, but
not liking it he set out and walked to Hamil-
ton, distance of five miles,
Ten languages-Eng German, Nor
wegan, Swedish, French, Bohemian, Finn,
Polish, Italian and Chinese-are spoken in Min
nesota. The governors message was printed
A Baltimore advertisement saws that Mrs.
- will continue the business of undertaken
and embalmer of her late husband" but the
length of time through which She will pro
long the operation is not given
A small boy in Oil City, Pa, is credited
with having trained a pair of big Cochin
China ROSTERS to drive double to harness. He
bitches them to little wagon, and it is said
that they draw it easily aid willingly.
Bob Ford, the slayer of Jesse james, has
spent all the money that he may have re
ceved for doing the deed and also all that he
made by exhibiting himself in dime museums,
and is now n waiter in restaurant at Santa
Fe, n NJ.
The announcement that somebody in Bos
ton had bought a pitcher in Chicago for
5000 set people asking if it was another
peachblow transaction, until the news came
that the business was in some way related to
the national game.
Mrs. Chester Woodford, aged "a, died in
Avon, Conn, on March 20; her sister, Mrs
George B. Woodford, aged 90. of the same
place, died on April 3; and her siSterin-law,
Mrs. Truman Woodford, aged "a, died in
Hartford on April /.
The Utica Press is authority for the state
ment that numbers of very young calves are
killed throughout the dairy region of Oneida
and Herlimer counties and their bodies
shipped to New York city, where the flesh is
canned and called chicken"
There is new song set to Heules lines
aim wunderschopen Monat Mai" by Princess
Beatrice. Like her father, the Prince Consort
and her brothers. the late Duke of Albany
and the Duke of Edinburgh, she is an anna
teur musician of no mean powers.
At recent trial of bloodhounds at the con
vict camp at Friars Point, Miss. a negro
under ten years sentence was released and
told that he could have his liberty if he es
capped the dogs. The convict had three hours
start, but the dogs ran the poor fellow down
before he had gone twenty miles.
The Hotel World gives list of thirty-six
hotels on Broadway, twenty-six of which are
conducted on the European plan three on the
American plan exclusively and seven on both
the European and American plans. These
thirty-six hotels on one street alone in New
York contain $40 rooms for guests.
First Lieut.. Alexander T. Dean Fourth
United States cavalry, has been found guilty
of the charge of dragging Blacksmith Grigo-
lett 100 yards or more by lariat tied around
his body and fastened to horse. His de-
Tense was that this was done to punish the
blacksmith, who deserved the treatment The
dragging was done on recent march through
Arizona
They have been taking from the 800 foot
level of mine at Virginia City, New. pieces
of pine tmbers which have been compressed
to one-fourth their natural size by twelve
years use under immense pressure at a tenn
perature of 100 dogs. The wood is of deep
chestnut color, takes fine polish and seems
as firm grained lockwood. Here is hint
for an inventor.
The only woman cab driver in England has
just died. Visitors TO Epping Forest will re-
call, as one of the peculiar institutions of that
vicinity, the female Jehu, who for many
years wore conspicuously the badge of a
driver and hello the reins in skillful competi-
ton with the men, who, no doubt vocifer-
ously denounced at cab stands and railway
stations this demonstration of a womans
rights.
Schenectady newspaper tells of citizen
of that town who went to New York
city and attended the theatre In the
middle of an act, in a most pathetic
scene, he suddenly slapped his leg vigor-
ously, and, exciaiming at the top of his voice,
"By the great horn spoon, | gave that man
at the door a $50 bill.' shot out of his seat
and made for the box office. There he found
an honest ticket seller and the change he had
forgotten to take when he bought his ticket
When w. g. Browning, of East Greenwich,
R. l., went to feed his cow the other morn
ing she was not in her accustomed stall He
had found the barn door locked and was at
a loss to know what had become of her
After an unsuccessful search about the prem
ises he went up to the hay loft for hay for
his horse and there stood the COW quietly
filling up at the NOW She had broken loose
in the night and climbed up fourteen steps to
the loft. 1t took carpenter and an inclined
plane to get her down.
The number of Germans in the whole world
who speak the German language and follow
German customs may he calcu' ated to be at
least 70,OO0,O00 OF these 42,0O0,000 belong
to Germany itself, 7,OOO0lO to Austria,
100000 to Hungary, 2,0OO,0O0 to Switzer-
land and 80 900 to Russia so that there still
remain l3,15O,00O for other parts. OF these
3250,0O0 are scattered in the remaining Eu-